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80 Quick Guide for the Impatient User

indicator along the bottom left corner of the screen is surrounded by two
sets of parentheses, which is supposed to convey movement.
DMF

“Direct Manual Focus” mode means it will start out in AF-S mode (focus
on a subject, then stop trying to focus)
and then it will go directly into
manual focus mode, where you can
quickly tweak the focusing via the
lens’ focusing ring.
As mentioned previously in the
middle of Section 2.3, DMF is even
more useful when you have Peaking
Level and Peaking Color enabled
(Section 6.7). With Peaking Level
enabled, as soon as the camera
switches to Manual Focus mode, the
things that are in focus (areas of Figure 3-9: This knob (bottom
highest contrast, as determined by rectangle) controls the camera’s
focus mode. Some lenses have their
analyzing the live view image) will own AF/MF switch (top rectangle)
appear in a certain color.
which might conflict with the setting
I find DMF to be most useful when of the Focus Mode knob. The
shooting objects that are very close – general rule is “If the lens has the
and DMF allows me to either adjust switch, it takes precedence”.
focusing via the lens’ focusing ring, or
(even faster) just move the camera back and forth a few inches until the
item I want in focus appears in a bright color.
MF
Manual Focusing, which probably needs no explanation. The camera will
actually magnify the center of the viewfinder for easy focusing if you
invoke MENU  6  Focus Magnifier (Section 5.27). Peaking Level
functions (as described above) work here also, but they’re not as strong in
magnification mode.

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